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Accession Number | ART03179 |
Collection type | Art |
Measurement | Overall: 76.2 x 63.8 cm |
Object type | Painting |
Physical description | oil on canvas |
Place made | Australia: Victoria, Melbourne |
Date made | 1920 |
Conflict |
Period 1920-1929 First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain |
Captain Ross Smith
Description
Captain Sir Ross Macpherson Smith, KBE, MC and Bar, DFC and two Bars, AFC, MID, is perhaps best know for his flight from England to Australia with his brother Keith, and J M Bennett and W H Shiers in November 1919. He served with the Light Horse in Gallipoli and joined No1 Squadron Australian Flying Corps as an observer in 1916. As a pilot he shot down thirteen enemy machines, and the record of his individual exploits reveals courage and skill of a high order. He was killed in an aeroplane accident in 1922.
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